Winter Green Oil and Its Benefits

WINTERGREEN OIL AND ITS BENEFITS

Wintergreen plant has a botanical name as Gaultheria Procumbens. Wintergreenoil is an essential oil prepared by steam distillation of leaves of wintergreen tree. The main two components of this essential oil are Gaultherilene and Menthyl Salicylate. Wintergreen tree has its native traced out as North America. This oil is known to be very famous and has lot many benefits for health and has been a boon to human life. The physical appearance of this oil is of pale yellow and pinkish in colour and had an odour of minty mixed with pleasant sweetish flavour.

The benefits of wintergreen oil are:

·         By diluting 1 to 2 drops of wintergreen oil and applying regularly, it reduces the bone pain which is sustaining from long.

·         By applying 1 to 2 drops of diluted oil for two times a day helps in reducing bone spurs.

·         By massaging the oil for 3 to 4 times a day, it also helps in the treatment of cartilage injury.

·         Wintergreen oil in daily wash of hair helps in the reduction of dandruff problems.

·         By massaging of oil regularly, it also reduces the hypertension which is built up in the body.

·         The inflammation of certain parts too is reduced by constant massaging of this essential oil.

·         Osteoporosis is also reduced by massaging the oil.

·         The salicylic acid and methyl salicylate is a natural aspirin present in the oil and hence reduces pain.

·         Rheumatism too has an answer as wintergreen oil.

·         Arthritic pain is the usual problem that emerges with old age and by massaging with wintergreen oil, it really gets reduced.

·         Wintergreen oil is a natural stimulant which stimulates the discharge of digestive juices, hormones, enzymes etc.

Precautions: Wintergreen oil is to be taken and used within the safe limits and the excess of it is not a good practice. Taking more of it directly into stomach may be fatal. Pregnant women should be careful about it as it may lead to miscarriages.

Knowing these, it’s up to you to decide about the essentiality of wintergreen oil and the uses by which it may serve you.